This is a highly disorganized post as I took days to finish it.
I can’t believe that it is 1am in the morning and I still have lots of daily online reading to do. [No more relevant on the day this is posted]
It was a Saturday early morning when I saw that particular vacancy. Composed a simple e-mail and sent in my resume. I didn’t expect any reply and definitely not on Sunday due to the lay-back culture over here and to my surprise, an interview is scheduled for me on Monday.
Monday morning couldn’t be more dramatic when I missed two buses, not one but two. The weird thing is, bus “100” supposes to pass by my place every 10 minutes but I waited around 20 minutes for a bus and I have seen THREE buses “100” pass by on the opposite side of the road throughout those 20 minutes.
Glad I still make it to the place ten minutes earlier and I got back only two and half hours later. It was an I-have learn-a-lot interview plus chit chat thing going on with the pharmacist in-charge.
We managed to touch on a lot of issues such as lifestyle diseases, his precious view on nutritional supplements, customer services, viable business model, courtesy, body language and eye contact during the two and half hours. He is a no-ordinary pharmacist. He has a lot to teach me.
One particular question he asked me was “Do you have eidetic memory/ photographic memory?” and sadly I have to answer “No, not at the moment.” I couldn’t believe that I actually forget to ask him the same Q after he told me to develop one. What a waste.
Last time one of my friends managed to brainwash me with the idea that independent pharmacy is facing tough competition from those operating under chain pharmacy. Apparently that is not all true or kind of doesn’t apply here/his pharmacy.
Lifestyle disease is definitely eye opening concept to me.
I was telling him about the incident where my ex-flatmate kind of argued with me over the amount of Ginkgo biloba to take (claim to boast your memory/ concentration) daily as I have the feeling that the recommended dose is actually a marketing strategy wanting you to finish the products faster.
He did linked Ginkgo with heart problems causing low/high (don’t remember which) blood pressure. HE however did mention that a large bottle of fish oils suppose to last you for months and consumer should only take supplements if they really need it. It all comes down to your [healthy] lifestyle.
I have a feeling that he could be a mean boss.
I too observe him throughout the informal interview. One particular incident was his mobile phone rang and I asked why didn’t he answer the call and he said to me :
“Those people in front of you are the one that matter the most/important. If it is important, they will ring me twice.” O
f course it did ring for second time eventually.
One particular thought was in my head at that very moment. He is either manipulative or he is being himself or really sincere. Why?
There is one particular scene in Red Cliff part 2 where Cao Cao needed every soldier to fight/die for him including those affected by the deadly, commutable and contagious plague. He eventually manages to raise his army’s morale and "manipulate" those sick soldiers to die for him by pretended that he cares for them and gave them an emotional speech.
The concept is kind of the same in Red Cliff and in the pharmacy.
The only closest memory trick I have ever done is to memorize a deck of poker cards in about half an hour two years back. It would a cool trick to do when you are trying to impress. 20 cards would take me less than ten minutes I hope.
The 2007 UK Memory Championships Ben Pridmore memorised a single shuffled deck of playing cards in 26.28 seconds beating the previous World Record of 31.16 seconds set by Andi Bell. Dominic O'Brien successfully set a new Guinness World Record by recalling 54 inter-shuffled decks of playing cards, having seen each card only once. He made 8 errors out of the 2808 cards, four of which he corrected himself after being told he had made the mistakes.
I am close to their records at least, in my own dream of course.
Went to city, new hair for new sem and Boarders for a few hours. The ice block featured at eunice's blog is no longer there (replaced by jazz music).
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